James Mattis Quotes
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It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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Americans are grateful for the connection and convenience their phones provide, helping them search for a lower price, navigate a strange city, expand a customer base or track their health and finances, their family and friends.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
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Find something you're passionate about, and focus on it.
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
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On handling stress When you start projecting on the future-'Oh my God, I gotta do this and I’m not there yet'-well, of course you’re not there yet because you’re here now. That time will come…I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn’t feel as stressful.
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I don't worry about stress. I create it.
